Benjamin Graham Bio

Benjamin Graham Bio

Benjamin Graham

Benjamin Graham (May 8, 1894 – September 21, 1976) is considered the father of value investing, an investment approach he began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1928 and subsequently refined with David Dodd through various editions of their famous book Security Analysis. Graham’s followers include Warren Buffett, William J. Ruane, Irving Kahn, Walter J. Schloss, and others. Buffett, who credits Graham as grounding him with a sound intellectual investment framework, described him as the second most influential person in his life after his own father. In fact, Graham had such an overwhelming influence on his students that two of them, Buffett and Kahn, named their sons Howard Graham Buffett and Thomas Graham Kahn after him. His book, Security Analysis, with David Dodd, was published in 1934 and has been considered a bible for serious investors since it was written. It and The Intelligent Investor published in 1949 (4th revision, with Jason Zweig, 2003), are his two most widely acclaimed books. Warren Buffett describes The Intelligent Investor as “the best book about investing ever written.” Read more at Wikipedia

The most well known discipline of Benjamin Graham was Warren Buffett. Buffett looked up to Graham as a mentor.